The Deputy Minority Leader in Parliament, Patricia Appiagyei, has dismissed media reports claiming that she rejected GH¢70,000 allegedly allocated to influence her during last week’s vetting of ministerial and Supreme Court nominees.
Reports circulating on Friday, September 4, 2026, quoted a purported memo dated September 2, in which Ms Appiagyei allegedly questioned the source of the money and declined to accept it.
The memo was reportedly copied to the Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, MP for Nsawam/Adoagyiri.
However, Ms Appiagyei, who is also the MP for Asokwa in Kumasi, in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report with Graphic Online, said that the memo was “fake”.
The reports come against the backdrop of the Minority Caucus’ decision to boycott the August 27 vetting of three Supreme Court nominees.
The caucus objected to what it described as a rushed timetable that did not allow enough time for parliamentary scrutiny and public participation.
Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin argued that the nominations had been submitted to Parliament only on Monday and called for the process to follow the 14-day precedent.
“These nominations came to the House on Monday. Let us reason together and let us be seen as being consistent with our political views. If you want to follow the precedent, please suspend today’s sitting, properly put out the advert as you requested when you were in opposition, and let us wait for the 14 days,” the Minority Leader said.
He also maintained that the Supreme Court already had a full complement of Justices, meaning there was no emergency requiring the appointments to be fast-tracked.
Mr Afenyo-Markin subsequently led Minority members of the committee out of the sitting after raising nine procedural objections.
Committee Chairperson Bernard Ahiafor rejected the objections as “flimsy”, “hollow” and “baseless”, and said any member dissatisfied with a decision of the House should rely on Parliament’s Standing Orders to seek a reversal.
“If you are aggrieved by the decision of the House, the method available for you to reverse that decision is contained in our own Standing Orders,” Mr Ahiafor said.
He added that he would not preside over the committee in a manner that sought to alter the orders, directions or decision already taken by the full House.
